CONTENTS
CHAP.	PAGE
preface         ........      ix
abbreviations         .....	xv
I.   tjif, mycenaean legacy        ....       1
A u medieval " period.— Consciousness of degeneracy
in the ITesiodie age.— The Myecn;can legacy in technique —
find in ideas : the character of the Hero.
Nature, of a Heroic Age, Early civil iwvlions and war. —
Diagnosis of reasons for the Minoan debacle. — Mykenai—
growth of disorder — decay of geographical knowledge.
Geometric pottery : its distribution. — Character of the
style — psychological theory of its origin.— The epic, and
Homer — bin importance and influence.
The new society — its answer to Homer's question.*—
Tellos of Athens.
II.   the would of hesiod         ....     31
Hesiod ; his history and antecedents — the Farmer's Year
—religion and superstition, in Homer and in Hesiod ; Hero
and Peasant- -nail-parings— -the Flamen Dialis —contact
with death—bcxuul taboos.
The Hehgious Calendar of early Athens :*- Thcsmophoria
-—the rural Pionysia ~ Lenaia • AnUiesUiria— Diiiwia -the
(Ionic) Thargelia and " scape-goat " ritual - the Bouphonta.
Arkadia ~/eus I,ykuios and the werwolf-- Pan, Kury-
nome, the Black Doinetcr. - Monsters in Hesiod's Thcojlflny,
Why we have to work: the myth of Pandora.—Hc.siod's
Ihnjs, -- Hi'siod's ethics. — Hcsiod on sea-faring.
III.     TlIE  PSYCHOLOGY AND  PRACTICE  OP MACJC      ,        82
Theokntos1 Sirnaitha. -Ot.hor instances of similar
practice. --Other Greuk superstitions, —The Hiipcrnatuml in
tiwek mythology.
Psychological theory of the origin of magic.- ~u Animism "
and the uueonseiwis mind — Hitunl —antidpations of maglo
in
IV,   law, the state, and the family       .       .    108
The Aristocracies ; their basdfl, military and economic. *
Nut always foreign conquerors,— Decline of th« monnwhy,
Land-tenure and the family i inheritawft - ito tcHtutiott
--women wul projpcrty — the family and rdigJon*--
Contrast of "Homeric" and early historic ideas again. •-
The paier a genuine owner of his jmiperty, nut only a
trustee— lite rights over Ms children,